posted 29 September 2000 16:57            

I find it a cool idea! I've recently gotten into John Cage's ideas of discovering music in ordinary sounds [my paraphrasing]. So I was brainstorming, "What if you could sonify a candle flame? There's a structure and variations in how it burns. Could you base a music composition or improvisation on the sonification? Like how 'bout jammin' with a candle?"

posted 29 September 2000 18:18            

I to didn't know what sonification was.

I don't know if this counts but something I did many years ago (before I had kyma) was to represent counting binery in musical notes where C was the least sig bit D was the second E was the third and so on. So my little BASIC programme played note groops at 1second intervals as follows C, D, C+D, E, C+E, D+E, C+D+E, F, C+F, D+F etc. It makes a distinctive sound and today when ever I need to count in binary the sound goes through my head and helps me avoid errors.
But an even better byproduct is that out of the mess of notes, your ear picks out a distinctive one note tune. The tune that you hear is defined by the highest note in the groop that was not presant in the previous groop, i.e C, D, C, E, C, D, C, F, C, D, C, E, C, D, C, G, C, D, C, E, C, D, C, F, etc. If you notice that C appears twice as many times as D and D appears twice as many times as E and so on. I have found this to be a very useful sequence in programing where you need to keep a check on eight inputs sequentialy but some are more important than others, but the time delay between each check of any input is compleately regular.

Maybe I've misssed the point but without the use of sound I would never have stumbled apon the sequence.

regards